Opinion
2015-04-02
Claudia EVART, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. SHAPIRO, BEILLY & ARONOWITZ, LLP, et al., Defendants–Respondents.
Ressler & Ressler, New York (Bruce J. Ressler of counsel), for appellant. Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP, Woodbury (Brett A. Scher of counsel), for respondents.
Ressler & Ressler, New York (Bruce J. Ressler of counsel), for appellant. Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP, Woodbury (Brett A. Scher of counsel), for respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Julia I. Rodriguez, J.), entered on or about July 2, 2013, which granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properly dismissed plaintiff's legal malpractice claims, since this Court previously dismissed the informed consent claims in the underlying action for lack of causation (Evart v. Park Ave. Chiropractic, P.C., 86 A.D.3d 442, 926 N.Y.S.2d 491 [2011], lv. denied 17 N.Y.3d 922, 934 N.Y.S.2d 371, 958 N.E.2d 549 [2011] ). Accordingly, plaintiff cannot establish that she would have succeeded on the merits of her underlying informed consent claims “but for” defendants' negligence ( see AmBase Corp. v. Davis Polk & Wardwell, 8 N.Y.3d 428, 434, 834 N.Y.S.2d 705, 866 N.E.2d 1033 [2007] ).